In the Toronto Star today quite an article about three idiots kn Toronto spray painting freight cars last Tuesday. Apparently he didn’t hear the train heading east at 40km an hour… He suffered severe head injuries and died as he was being rushed to the hospital. There was a picture of the chain link fench that they ripped a hole in to get to the tracks. Two others were with the teen idiot at rthe time. I find it amazing that the police let t the other two iditor go and ditnt even charge them with trespassing
Also mentioned in the article that there were quite a few tins of paint at the scene so this activity has been going on for some time.
Well…There goes to show just how STUPID the Railroads are today.
I can’t believe that the RR’s of today don’t even take someone to jail for painting graffiti on Freight cars while tresspassing but oh hell send a Railfan to jail just for doing nothing.
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Just guessing, but perhaps the other two boys were let go because the police and/or the railroad figured that the loss of their comrade was punishment enough. These two guys are going to be thinking about this the rest of their lives.
You know what? Perhaps the trains got tired of being sprayed and decided to get even.
I know that the sentence I just wrote will stir up some strong feelings. But these boys broke a fence designed to keep people OUT of dangerous areas in the railroad property and quite frankly his death should serve as a warning to those who may consider such acts of vandalism in the future.
Yep! Teens can do some incredibly stupid things! (I know I did sometimes). They went way beyond crossing the line.
Just an after thought, but it might have been good for the railroad to make a deal in which they wouldn’t be arrested if they agreed to make a short video and internet presentation warning other kids and the public of the dangers in trespassing on railroad property and then feature the photo of their friend that was killed!
I’m sure that they could still do this as a public service. If I were those two boys’ dad, I’d make them do it PRONTO after I disciplined (kick their tails) them!
As kids we all did stupid things, But I know that I’m not deaf. You can definitly hear and feel a train coming down the tracks. Maybe these other two kids shold have a no paying summer job of restoring the spray painted cars back to the way they were, weathered and all.
Spraypainters don’t care what they destroy as long as there “gangs” name is on something
Some of the next generation is out of control, better start building more prisons.
A. Can’t fill out the application with a spray can.
This one predates Cypriano’s back to the late 70’s
Didnt we just go thru a big brewhaha regarding another Idiot who got killed tagging a train? I’m get tired of saying time and time again that Idiots like this get killed by intentionally standing in the crosshairs.
About the same as what we go through every time something comes up about some bozo getting hit running the gates.
Like the story about the guy who gets over for running a stop sign. “But officer, I slowed down!”
Officer gets out nightstick starts hitting driver over head with it. “Now, do you want me to stop, or just slow down?”
Some of these people need the nightstick. Period. Even then, they’ll never learn.